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John Path

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Registered: 2021-10-15

Posts: 57

[SOLVED]Another zone's time on polybar

Hi,

I am using polybar, and i want to use time of 2 different zones.

I want to use it with date-alt on config files of polybar.

I wrote the following in config but it just print the whole lines instead of showing time of different zone.

[module/time]
type = internal/date
interval = 1

format = <label>
format-background = #2a2e36
;format-foreground = #82868e
format-foreground = #a7acb4

date = %I:%M:%S %p%{F-}
date-alt= TZ=Canada/Mountain date +"? %I:%M:%S %p"

label = %date%

I would use some help to solve this problem

Last edited by John Path (2022-02-19 10:29:43)

ishaanbhimwal

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Registered: 2022-01-21

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Re: [SOLVED]Another zone's time on polybar

You could use the custom/script module for this. For example:

[bar/mybar]
modules-center = time-singapore

[module/time-singapore]
type = custom/script
exec = TZ=Asia/Singapore date +"Singapore: %H:%M"
interval = 30

John Path

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Registered: 2021-10-15

Posts: 57

Re: [SOLVED]Another zone's time on polybar

You could use the custom/script module for this. For example:

[bar/mybar]
modules-center = time-singapore

[module/time-singapore]
type = custom/script
exec = TZ=Asia/Singapore date +"Singapore: %H:%M"
interval = 30

But this will just show both zone time, i just want to see the time of another zone sometimes only (when i click it.)

patrickziegler

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From: ::1

Registered: 2018-11-02

Posts: 29

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Re: [SOLVED]Another zone's time on polybar

There is an example on the polybar wiki for how to write your own script for a two-state date module: https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki … t#examples

John Path

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Registered: 2021-10-15

Posts: 57

Re: [SOLVED]Another zone's time on polybar

I made it to work thanks.

Also sorry for late response i didnot saw your reply.

JanusDC

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From: Buenos Aires

Registered: 2012-05-20

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Re: [SOLVED]Another zone's time on polybar

I made it to work thanks.

Also sorry for late response i didnot saw your reply.

Can you share your module?

ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: [SOLVED]Another zone's time on polybar

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